Over The Last Star of Morning

Summary: [Part 2 of the Unicorn Verse Series]
The morning after. Or how Chin woke up a unicorn.

Over The Last Star Of Morning

It was the hard thunk of the floor
meeting Chin’s head that woke him. Shaking his head groggily, he blinked
back the gray fuzzies of sleep that hung in his vision. He hadn’t
fallen out of bed while sleeping since he was twenty-two and spent the
first full night sharing a bed with a woman. He didn’t have anyone in
his bed to kick him over the side like Malia had that time, so he wasn’t
sure how he had ended up on the ground.

Pressing his hand to the
floor Chin moved to get up, only to freeze. His hands weren’t hands.
They were hooves! Shinny silver cloven hooves.

Shit.

Twisting
his neck to look over his shoulder Chin was not surprised to his that
his tanned skin was now a rich, dark midnight black. The silver spots on
his rump were a bit more startling. He couldn’t remember Danny having
spots.

Letting a great whoosh of a sigh out, Chin began the
arduous task to trying to get to his feet. Danny made it look so easy,
Chin though as his back legs slipped out from under him on the polish
hardwood, dropping him back to the floor. He tried again, this time
raising his front half up first so that he was now sitting. After taking
a moment to make sure his front legs were steady he carefully started
to press his back feet down as he raised his rump up. The legs wobbled a
bit under him but this time he did not fall.

He stood there a
moment long as he got used to the feel of having four legs and no hands.
It was a distinctly odd feeling. He was taller than he had been as a
human and his neck was longer, allowing for a greater rang of motion.
Chin almost jumped at the soft wack against his side. Turning about he
caught sight of the flick of his long tail behind him, swinging about
wildly. Tail. Of course. Why hadn’t he remembered that?

Ears
laying back in irritation, Chin took several careful steps around his
bed towards his bedroom door. Silently grateful that he had left the
door open when he had gone to bed. He couldn’t imagine how irritated he
would be if he had closed it and ended up forced to try and kick it
down. He was already going to have to kick down his back door so he
could get outside. He had to get to Steve’s house before he lost his
mind to the animal instincts and the call of the forest that Danny had
described.

As he made his way out of the bedroom, Chin paused to
look himself over in the mirror. He didn’t look exactly as Danny had.
The color of the fur being the big tip off. But he also noticed his mane
was different. It wasn’t the long, curling mane of a horse that Danny
had sported. No, his was long and fluffy like a lions, starting at the
top of his head, flowing down his neck along his spin and wrapping
around his neck and growing shorter as it reached his jaw. The ends of
his mane twisted into curls over his shoulders and Chin realized that
Grace was going to go into excited fits when she saw him and would
likely have bows and flowers braided into his hair just as Danny had
earlier that very day.

In truth that was probably the least of his
worries. It was dark out, and from the sounds coming from the other
side of his window, it was also raining. Not a pleasant night to walk to
Steve’s place from here. Not when the walk was likely to take a couple
hours if he wanted to try and avoid any people that might still be up.
Still it was a walk he was going to have to make. His home just wasn’t
set up to hold an animal the size of a horse and his neighbors were
close enough that they would be able to see him going in and out of the
house.

- - - H50 - - -

Three hours later
found Chin standing on Steve’s deck, his thick mane still fluffed up,
the ends of the hair covered in dew like raindrops. He gave his body a
shake from the tips of his ears to the very tip of his tail, shaking off
as much rain as possible. He couldn’t feel the cold he knew he should
feel after being outside at night and soaking wet. Instead he actually
felt fairly warm. It was strange, but not really anything bad. He felt
calm and comfortable. Safe.

That was strange. He shouldn’t feel
safe or calm considering he had been turned into an animal. He should be
in a panic, running back to the spring where this had all started.
Trying to convince the spirit of the spring to change him back. Instead
he had calmly walked in the opposite direction, out towards the beach
and Steve’s house. He didn’t understand why. Not at first but he was
starting to think maybe it had to do with Danny having been a unicorn.
Or maybe it was how his animal mind was whispering about Steve being the
lead stallion of the herd.

The herd. He was part of a herd.

Fuck.

Sighing
as dramatically as a unicorn could, he circled the lanai once before
walking back to the glass doors leading inside. He could see something
inside the dark house but it was hard to make it out past the reflection
of the full, heavy moon in the glass. All he could really tell was that
it was something large, white and moving. He thought there was
something familiar about it but whatever it was too distorted by the
glass for him to be sure of.

Maybe it was Danny? Could he have
changed into a unicorn again? Or was it Steve? Steve had gone in the
water too. Steve could have gotten stuck like this. He would deserve it
to. Maybe it would calm the SEAL down a bit. The team could certainly
use the break it would afford them. Heck, it would almost be worth being
turned into a unicorn if Steve was changed too.

Several quick
flashes of bright light startled Chin out of his musing, causing him to
let out a loud exclamation of shock and to rear up on his hind legs. A
similar sound echoed from inside and Chin dropped back down to all
fours.

“No,” Danny’s voice came from the other side of the glass.
So much for the white shape, which was now sure was a unicorn, being
Danny. “Steve,” Danny asked incredulously.

The white unicorn on
the other side of the glass nodded its head excitedly and whinnied
loudly. Irritated that the other two male members of the team were
ignoring him, Chin let out a bellow of a whinny, startling both into
jumping and spinning around to face him. Danny’s mouth dropped open and
if unicorns could laugh Chin might do so at the look on the other mans
face.

“Oh God. Another one.”

Danny glanced back at the
Steve unicorn then back to Chin. Licking his lips Danny set the camera
he had been holding, down and reached for the phone. Chin was fairly
certain Danny was calling Kono. Not that Chin blamed him. He was kind of
hoping his cousin would pick up. If she picked up then she was still
human. Chin really didn’t want to know what Kono would get up to as a
unicorn.

“Kono. Its Danny.” Danny looked nervously between the two
unicorn’s, tugging absent mindedly at the shoulder length white blond
curls of his hair. “I would but there are two unicorns standing in
Steve’s house with me.”

He looked close to hyperventilating for a
moment and Chin worried about Danny’s blood pressure. “Yeah…I think its
Steve and Chin…As I can be.”

Releasing one of the curls Danny
pressed his thumb against the bridge of his nose. A second later
whatever Kono said seemed to have calmed him down. “Amen, sister.” Danny
smirked at the two glaring unicorns, his own horn catching the light
and sparkling. Reminding the two newest unicorns what awaited them when
they made it back to being human.

Damn. Chin shook his head and gently nudged his hoof against the glass, asking to be let in.

How were they going to hide their new non-human features?

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mariaocasio161718:
I want more! This story seemed like it just started. It's just the beginning of her new life and I wanted just a little more just to see her happy. And to see her fined out he is a king and she is a queen...lol and his family's reaction to him getting married all that stuff.

Rosalyn Morello:
Please update. I really love your story. You should keep writing. Your story is wonderful. So please continue this lovely story. Some people are getting mad and using profane language in the comments sections because you haven't updated for a while.

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